The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
